: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:41 pm  

Can you see Matt James getting back into the team? I noticed that he wasnt in the 17 on Sunday. We'd love him back... oh & Koppy too please

Re: The Bradford pack : Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:44 pm  

DILLIGAF wrote:

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I was a fan of Nero when he played at Huddersfield and was happy with the signing, but after last year I was all for him buggering off back. With the exception of that Wigan game though, if he continues playing like he has been, I've got no problem at all with him being our first choice.

Absolutely spot on, Nero has been back to the Nero of old, and Hull was his best game for us yet.

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:45 pm  

griffax wrote:

Can you see Matt James getting back into the team? I noticed that he wasnt in the 17 on Sunday. We'd love him back... oh & Koppy too please

Not unless we have an injury.

To be honest, James has never quite established himself enough to get in ahead of Burgess, Lynch, Scruton or Kopczak. Unless one of those goes down injured, I can't see James getting back in the team.

I would expect he'll be back at Fax within a week or two, and hopefully it'll do him the good that it did Kopczak.

[Bullseye]

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:49 pm  

DILLIGAF wrote:

Not unless we have an injury.

To be honest, James has never quite established himself enough to get in ahead of Burgess, Lynch, Scruton or Kopczak. Unless one of those goes down injured, I can't see James getting back in the team.

I would expect he'll be back at Fax within a week or two, and hopefully it'll do him the good that it did Kopczak.

Agree with all that. James prob needs a long spell at Fax before we can decide if he's up to it. Koppy has shown promise since he came back off loan, he's a mile away from being the finished article but worth sticking with.

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:51 pm  

I didn't think you were all that bad tbh. Your pack held their own which no other side has really done against us yet and in fact for about 15 minutes after we had gone 12-0 up you were dominant. The difference between the two sides was when the ball went wide.

Jeffries was a terrible signing for you imo and Deacon looked very avarage too. Nero is cracking player on his day but he is a back rower, not a centre. You just don't have those players who can make things happen. It was a tight game and but for a few magic moments from Manu and Thorman you could have probably won.

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:20 pm  

DISA wrote:

If you look at the stats on Super League, the Bulls have the worst amount of meters made of any super league side so far this year. Actually nearly half of Wigan have done.

Hardly an argument for a good pack.

Excepted you have played one less game though.

That was Les Dawson-esque timing.

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:38 pm  

DISA wrote:

If you look at the stats on Super League, the Bulls have the worst amount of meters made of any super league side so far this year. Actually nearly half of Wigan have done.

Hardly an argument for a good pack.

Excepted you have played one less game though.

Except its actually two games less - they have played 50% more games than us. But hey, why let the facts get in the way again, eh?

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:15 pm  

Not sure how anyone can say Scruton has been good. He drops most balls that come to him. He was even looking the wrong way when one came to him yesterday.

I'm just hoping that it's a case of lots of new players needing to gel and players getting used to playing out of position, ie 13 2nd rowers (or almost that many) and changing position about 5 times in each match. But I'm not too confident with that hope right now, my bigger hope is that we scrape 8th somehow and use the spare cap to buy a new team for the playoffs.

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:17 am  

verynoble wrote:

Not sure how anyone can say Scruton has been good.

Because some of us have watched him

verynoble wrote:

He drops most balls that come to him.

. . . and some of us clearly haven't